Bare-tailed Woolly Opossum
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Order: Didelphimorphia
Family: Didelphidae
Subfamily: Caluromyinae

[Photo] Bare-tailed Woolly Opossum (Caluromys philander); descriped as Didelphis cayopollin, plate from Schreber, Johann Christian Daniel von, Histoire naturelle des quadrup??des repr??sent??s d´apr??s nature. Tome III. Le phoque, le chien, le chat, le putois, la loutre, la marte, l'ours, le didelphe, la taupe, la souris, le h??risson A Erlang, chez Wolfgang Walther, 1780. Source http://www.vet-lyon.fr/bib/fondsancien/ico/vignet.php?ouv=s780c

Bare-tailed Woolly Opossum (Caluromys philander), also called the White-eared Opossum is an opossum species from South America. It is a species restricted only to moist forests.

Just like any other member of the Caluromys genus, the Bare-tailed Woolly opossum is a strongly arboreal species of marsupial, differing from other Didelphidae opossums for having a comparatively large encephalization quotient and smaller litter size. It feeds on fruits, nectar, invertebrates and small vertebrates.

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